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Less Frequent Steps that do not Repeat Very Often 1. Keyword Research 2. Competitive Intelligence 3. Web Design and Development 4. Get Your First Inbound Links 5. Sitemaps 6. Web Analytics 7. Content Building 8. Link Building 9. Engagement, Trust and Community Building 10. Ranking and Traffic Analysis 11. Conversion Analysis
helo dear if you want good ranking then put your site on all search engines and most of social networking sites create articules with ur site names and post them e,g my site vugoogle dot com age is 30 days and it is getting good rank from others in little time check it thanks
first of all try to get back links from other sites listed on google with keyword sports or any other keyword for you want to rank high. Create quality content as google introduced new spam filter which can de index your site if you have used free articles for your site,you must have unique content no matter how many backlinks you get according to new spam filter of google.
As most of the posters above already quoted in this thread 1 : Quality content (of course it should be about sports) 2 : Back links from high pr sites (spots sites would be better) 3 : blog commenting, forum posting, article submission etc...